Wow, it's been forever since I posted anything. I guess I haven't been doing anything interesting.

Today I knitted the first thing I ever knitted without a pattern. I'm not a great knitter, but I think it came out ok.

Just in case anyone else wants to make one, here's what i did...

----stem----
co 3
i-cord for a while
put 2 st on holder

----leaf----
repeat for each stitch on holder
1 kfb 2
2 (an all even otherwise marked) p
3 k2 kfb k1
5 k1 kfb k1 kfb k1
7 k
9 k1 ssk k1 k2tog k1
11 k2 bo1 k2
12 bo2 break yarn.
bo2 (i just used a small piece for this)

---making---
bind in extras.
with the two at the top of the stem, i went through each leaf to give it a little more support than the 2 st. from the kfb.

i hope this all makes sense. first try!

have a skull

i knitted this thing the other day. it uses the pattern in Pretty in Punk. it's made with crappy crappy old hand me down red yarn. i mean seriously, this stuff SUCKS. i probably won't be using it again, but oh well. you can't be too picky about free yarn i guess. i like th skull though so maybe i'll put that on some other stuff...

it's almost halloween, right?

here's a cute jack-o-lantern i knitted. hooray for halloween! i've made three already. knitting in the round is kind of fun.


(here's the pattern)

In Stitches

i've jumped on the bandwagon of knitting. it's pretty fun and there's some awesome patterns out there. i started with the one from the newest Craft: ... a crime scene scarf. since it's my first project, i'm taking pictures to keep track of my progress. i'm enjoying making it, but i need to get better at knitting. i'm not leaving enough string between the letters and they're getting all squished. and it's getting harder to keep the thing unrolled. i wonder if that's normal in a scarf though... well, it shouldn't be too noticeable cause i'll be folding it in half and stitching the sides together. i read somewhere that after you're done knitting, you can get it wet and stretch it out to dry and it'll end up even. i'm hoping so...